Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time
Dainin Katagiri
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The moment that you are living right now is a very important opportunity to make your life vividly alive.”
“before your mind starts to work and you want to run away, accept every moment as an opportunity presented to you to practice facing reality as it really is.”
“Life and death occur in a moment. In other words, life and death are nothing but moment. You don’t believe that your life is a moment, because in everyday life you always have lots of choices. But if you see death, you taste it immediately. Moment and you come together, creating the momentum energy of time, and you and death become one; you have no choice.”
“Keep your mouth shut and look directly at impermanence!”
“Detachment doesn’t mean you should ignore form; it means you have to attach to form through and through. A form may bother you, but you need form because you love truth, you love peace, you love life itself.”
“if you want to make a vivid statement about yourself, say you are kiya—arising only!”
“When you touch this basic nature of human life you feel relief. This is your final abode, your terminal station. If you take the train of human life, finally you arrive at the terminal station. It seems to be a dead end, but it is not the usual dead end. When you reach that terminal station it is the end, but it is also the beginning. At that dead end something happens. A new life comes up. From this basic place you can go anywhere—to the north, to the west, to the south, to the east—everywhere. Your life is open in all directions.”
“no matter how long you try to follow a meaningful purpose in life, impermanence always cuts it off.”
“Zazen doesn’t give you something—it’s the complete opposite!”
“You are connected with all beings in time, which permeates into every inch of the cosmic universe, and space, where everyone and everything exists together in peace and harmony.”
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meditation, love-of-life, apophatic, born-again-experience, existentialism, new-beginning, spiritual-transformation, nonduality, emptiness, spiritual-practice, form, detachment, zazen, devotion, freedom, creativity, commitment, formlessness, zen-buddhism, contemplative-practice, new-life, impermanence
